16’34”

“Time is neither linear, nor heaped in a pyramidal hierarchy....”

Communing with a futurism now past, this short documentary revisits two “Metabolist” architecture projects: Nakagin Capsule Tower (1972) in Tokyo (demolished 2022), and Capsule House K (1973; extant), Nagano Prefecture.

Narration by architect-politican Kisho Kurokawa’s son Mikio, Nakagin project manager Nobuo Abe, and preservationist Tatsuyuki Maeda. Filmed in Japan before the pandemic, produced in Montréal. 2024.

This project was generously supported by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Christopher Blackmore — Director, Producer
Milo Reinhardt — Post-Production, Editing
Josh Frank — Editing
Yuji Moriwaki — Cinematography
Megumi Furihata, Daniel González,
Akio Kunisawa, Nami Kunisawa — Translation
With Nobuo Abe, Mikio Kurokawa, Maeda Tatsuyuki
Special Thanks James Goddard, Lena Sasakura Shockley